Stewart County, Georgia

administration
Stewart County Courthouse, listed on NRHP No. 80001234
US state :	Georgia
Administrative headquarters :	Lumpkin
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Stewart County Administration P.O. Box 157 Lumpkin, Georgia, 31815-0157
Foundation :	December 23, 1830
Area code :	001 229
Demographics
Residents :	6058 (2010)
Population density :	5.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1200 km²
Water surface :	12 km²
map

The Stewart County is a county in the state of Georgia to the United States . The county seat is Lumpkin .

geography

The county is located in southwest Georgia, on the border with Alabama and has an area of 1,200 square kilometers, of which twelve square kilometers are water surface, and is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Chattahoochee County , Marion County , Webster County , Randolph County and Quitman County .

history

Stewart County was formed on December 23, 1830. It was named after General Daniel Stewart , an officer in the Revolutionary War and great-grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	12,993	-
1850	16,027	23.4%
1860	13,422	-16.3%
1870	14,204	5.8%
1880	13,998	-1.5%
1890	15,682	12%
1900	15,856	1.1%
1910	13,437	-15.3%
1920	12,089	-10%
1930	11,114	-8.1%
1940	10,603	-4.6%
1950	9194	-13.3%
1960	7371	-19.8%
1970	6511	-11.7%
1980	5896	-9.4%
1990	5654	-4.1%
2000	5252	-7.1%
2010	6058	15.3%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010

The Providence Canyon State Park

According to the 2010 census, the then 6,058 inhabitants were distributed over 1,862 inhabited households, which results in an average of 2.35 people per household. There are a total of 2383 households.

63.7% of the households were family households (consisting of married couples with or without offspring or one parent with offspring) with an average size of 2.97 persons. There were children under the age of 18 in 28.2% of all households and persons aged 65 or over in 33.9% of all households.

18.0% of the population were younger than 20 years, 36.2% were 20 to 39 years old, 26.9% were 40 to 59 years old, and 19.1% were at least 60 years old. The mean age was 37 years. 60.8% of the population were male and 39.2% were female.

28.0% of the population identified themselves as whites, 47.3% as African American , 0.2% as Indians and 0.7% as Asian Americans . 22.8% said they belonged to another ethnic group and 1.0% to several ethnic groups. 24.0% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

The average annual income per household was 20,882 USD , while 41.4% of the population lived below the poverty line.